The Vatican Information Service is a news service, founded in the Holy See Press Office, that provides information about the Magisterium and the pastoral activities of the Holy Father and the Roman Curia...[+]

Bishop-elect Jenik was born in
Manhattan, U.S.A. in 1944 and was ordained a priest in 1970. He holds
a bachelor's degree in theology from the St. Joseph's seminary,
Yonkers, and a master's degree in education from the Fordham
University, Yonkers. He has served as deputy priest of the “St.
Jerome's Parish” and the “St. Thomas Aquinas Parish” in the
Bronx, New York, and is currently priest of the “Our Lady of Refuge
Parish”, the Bronx, New York and regional vicar for north-west
Bronx. He was named Prelate of Honour of His Holiness in 1995.

Bishop-elect Byrne was born in
Manhattan, U.S.A. in 1951 and was ordained a priest in 1984. He holds
a bachelor's degree in history and social sciences from the Fordham
University, Yonkers, and a bachelor's degree in theology from the St.
Joseph's seminary, Yonkers. He has served as deputy priest of the
“Holy Family Parish” in the Bronx, New York, and administrator
and subsequently priest of the “Immaculate Conception” and the
“St. John the Baptist” parishes in Staten Island. He is currently
priest of the “St. Elizabeth Parish” in Manhattan, New York.

Bishop-elect O'Hara was born in Jersey
City, U.S.A. in 1946 and was ordained a priest in 1984. He holds a
bachelor's degree in English from the Seton Hall University, South
Orange, and carried out his ecclesiastical studies at the St.
Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers. He has served as deputy priest of the
“St. Augustine Parish”, New City, the “St. Charles Parish”,
Staten Island, and the “St. Teresa of the Infant Jesus Parish”,
Staten Island, where he subsequently became priest in 2000. He is
also director for Strategic Parish Planning for the archdiocese of
New York.

- appointed Cardinal Francisco Javier
Errazuriz Ossa, archbishop emeritus of Santiago de Chile, Chile, as
his special envoy to the Third World Apostolic Congress on Mercy
(WACOM III), to be held in Bogota, Colombia from 15 to 19 August
2014.